С перехом к рыночным отношениям в Российской Федерации возникла необходимость приспособить обучающую программу аграрных вузов и включить в ее дисциплину...

Against the rising global concern of how to achieve sustainable output expansion in food, we document the main outcomes of post-Soviet agricultural recovery and restructuring in the Kazakhstan grain region. Together with an expansion of cropland area and increasing capital input, real...

This paper challenges the uselfullness of the cluster-based development strategy to diversify and increase the competitiveness of Kazakhstan's economy, regarding the case of the country's agro-food sector. For this it refers to insights of the Austrian Market Process Theory. It is argued that...

The paper provides an overview of the institutional arrangements on the micro level that have evolved in the agro-food sector of Kazakhstan in the course of transition. Emphasis is laid on more complex arrangements like agroholdings and clusters, hitherto mostly unknown in the agro-food sectors...

Das Ziel der vorliegenden Studie war es, die Wettbewerbsprozesse innerhalb der polnischen fleischverarbeitenden Industrie während der ersten sechs Transformationsjahre empirisch zu untersuchen. Hierbei wurde zwei Fragestellungen nachgegangen. Wie hat sich die Intensität des Wettbewerbs in...

Kazakhstan is now widely regarded as a key player on world agricultural markets, with considerable export potential in the wheat, beef and dairy sectors. Based on unique farm-level data covering all production systems currently relevant, we offer new insights into the constraints that hamper...